Passion = Joy

“Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.” – Helen Keller

Today, I attended another meetup. This one, is a pre-startup school get together in Mountain View. Again, it was awesome. I got to chat with many interesting people. Listened to their ideas. Gave people a little glimpse into my own idea. It is such a joy to talk to people that share a passion, and understand each other’s motivation and struggles.

The more I indulge myself in this “startup” crowd, the more I come to realize this indeed is my true passion. I am so joyful and so excited about what the future may hold.

I believe this sense of joy is a confirmation that I have found my passion.

Now, I must monetize this passion!

Passion = Joy ?= Money

Code Monkey-ing

“The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn’t do.” Thomas Edison

Today, I went to a really awesome PHP meetup in Sunnyvale. Met a few people, and learned a lot of the basics on PHP. I finally got familiarized with my WAMPP and got a first lecture on introduction to PHP. It was fantastic.

Now, I just got to code monkey all this together!

Keep coding, and coding, and coding…

Don’t Break the Chain – Day 46 [Motivation Hack]

“The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in determination.” Tommy Lasorda

I found this website: dontbreakthechain.com exactly 46 days ago. It was also exactly 46 days ago, that I had conceived of my “idea.”

At a quick glance, this website is nothing more than a calendar. However, this website obviously has a much deeper meaning/greater usefulness than a simple calendar. The story [1] originated from the famed comedian, Jerry Seinfeld. Someone once asked for his advice for a young comic. His tip was to write lots of jokes, and write them every day. In short, Jerry accomplishes this by posting a big calendar on his wall, and marking off the days that he writes a decent amount of jokes with a big red marker. He does it for 1 day… 3 day.. a week… 2 weeks… and he slowly creates a chain of red marks. Then, he reminds himself everyday, when he sees the calendar: “Don’t break the chain!”

This is so awesome. All my life, I feel like I’ve always had problems with persistence and staying motivated. There are just so many things that I once felt a strong passion for, but later gave it up, because I lost focus. Yet now, I feel like I can be much more dedicated to something. I am able to continuously remind myself of what I want to accomplish, what I already have built up, and the effort that I would be putting to waste, if I just give up.

This neat little website really plays a huge role in keeping me focused and motivated.

[1] Source: Life Hacker, 7/24/2007, Motivation: Jerry Seifeld’s Productivity Secret.

Hello world!

Hello world, indeed. My trek into the software/web dev begins here.

“My son is now an ‘entrepreneur’. That’s what you’re called when you don’t have a job.” – Ted Turner

How fitting: Two weeks ago, “I quit” from my day job, and last Friday was my last official day as a full-time Product Engineer at Maxim Integrated Products. I just really felt that I had to take this bold step into pursuing my entrepreneurial dreams. So, I suppose you can say that I don’t really have a job right now.

So here we go. I’ve also decided to start blogging once again. This time, focusing on my startup experience, my thoughts, my struggles, and (hopefully) some success. I’ll likely try to incorporate at least one entrepreneurial quote into each of my posts.

My startup is currently in Stealth-mode. So I won’t be going into the details of what I’m doing.